A long-secretive cybersecurity startup founded by former Pentagon employees isn’t so spooky after all. It just wants to slow hackers down.

Shape Security is creating software that could, for instance, stop Russian hackers from converting the 40 million credit- and debit-card numbers stolen from Target over the holidays into cash before customers cancel their cards.

According to security experts, the company appears to be the first to try to block rapid-fire fraud programs by having a website constantly shift its code, making it hard to write automated hacking tools. Read More »

Internet message boards were abuzz this weekend over the two extensions — “Add to Feedly” and “Tweet This Page” — each of which had fewer than 100,000 users. In both cases, people described how the extensions were silently updated to include code that served undesirable ads. One user review for “Add to Feedly” called the extension “spam” that caused ads to suddenly pop up on any website visited. Read More »